| Show THE BOWL BOWLES ES 1 correspondence dence PENCE FROM UTAH 4 among those who were with the tile hon ron schuyler colfax when he visited this city last june were two gentlemen of the press S bowles and A D richardson who have been treatie treating C the readers ot of the springfield rma waa maa republican and the new york I 1 tribune respectively to accounts of the mormons cormons Mor mons their institutions peculiarities liari hari ties ac in lie a correspondence descriptive crip tive five of the trip and the places visited while the latter writes with more of a manifestation of liberal thought it 1 ia plainly discern ablo in the correspondence of both that they came here wrongly imbued with certain prejudices through which they looked at nearly everything they theys saw baw awand and they apparently ought sought for matter to fortify and strengthen those prejudices which ether ather otherwise wise vise might perhaps have been item to a very great groat extent d dissipated the fint named of the two gentlemen indeed betrays in hla hia letters a modicum of aari aarl acrimony monr mony when he lie speaks of the mormons cormons Mor mons that make 3 his admissions of their industry energy and taste and the evident wisdom of their V leaders ders have tho the air of coming from a man who wms waa forced to admit rather than honestly and willingly desired to state facts which lie saw sair felt folt and recognized cagni zed ho writes writs aa as if he had been compelled to admit the existence of many things here which are praiseworthy it is natural to suppose that where such prejudices are manifested in what lie he cannot help saying eulogistically of great salt lake city and the mormons cormons Mor mons they would be displayed V with ith increased virulence when he came la in contact with or witnessed anything here dissonant with them theirl and such apposition is correct 9 but bufu apart from their estimate of our intelligence as a people and of the honesty and uprightness of olf our leaders abere there are some points lu in their corres correa i P pon 0 dence on which we would a tv few strictures they came here enjoyed the hospitality of the city visited treely freely with a few citizens some of whom believe aa we do a and ad somei some who ho do not and from the ten days residence among us thus spent they presume to judge of the faith and feelings of the tho whole community of latter day saints on certain characteristic points of our faith and practice among these they conclude that polygamy li repugnant to a large portion of the latter day saints and that it necessarily entails a avast vast amount of mih mir misery ory ery upon females who voluntarily enter enten into it destroying the niner finer feel lugii ard aud trept af both men meu en and women and pree precluding luding the existence of that affection which should characterize the marriage rc lation ship to the first of the thee c we would KI say fay if they had traveled farther among and mingled more extensively with the latter day saints it would not have been po possible sible sibie for tilt thi JL 1 I to 10 hive blye alon mien into this error V Ys n we vc lew every revelation irom irum llie the lord is sacred Poly pois polygamy gainy was none nolie of our seeking becking it came to us froin from heaven andee and aud we d in 5 1 ant ani annl till jo do the voi vol voie vole of H him im who e tiglia i litt itt lit it is not ord only to teach u but abut lo 10 dictate andt alid teall beall ach i all au men wen for in his hand ia is the breath of the nostrils the life and existence of the proudest most exalted most learned or ui iii ulia ulla it of ka the the of if men wen u ca c a it is A f biily ay iffie ii iriri 11 at lii v utterly i lor lime lige who have not been M 0 c d with the gift of the holy ghost to to enter into our feelings tho thoughts and und faith in these matters they talk of revelation given and of receiving re celvin counter revelation to forbid what has lias been commanded as if man was the sole aole author originator and designer of them granted that they do not believe the revelations we have received come from god granted that they do not believe in god at all if they so desire it do they wish to bral bran da d a whole people with the foul stigma of hypocrisy who from their leaders leader to the last e converti eon con ventu vertu that have made the vie dreary journey to these theae mountain wil is for their faith falth have proved their lil ill huu hun esty of purpose and deep sincerity of faith by the most sublime sacrifices either that is the issue of their reasoning or they imagine that we serve and worship the most accommodating k deity ever dreamed of in the wildest vagaries of the most savage polytheist either they imagine that we believe man con chocta and devisee the revelations revelation a which we receive or that we serve a god who will oblige ua us at any time by giving us revelations to suit our changing fancies or the dictation of men who have declared the canon of revelation full 0 sealed scaled up the heavens li eavens as a brass brasa and utterly repudiate the interference oft of he the almighty in the affairs of men by the first of these suppositions we would be gross grosi hypocrites by the other grosser idols yet in the tile face odthe of the bloodstained blood stained I 1 walls of carthage Cart hage hago and nauvoo of missouri and illinois where the blood of martyred marty red saints sainta still all I 1 appeals to heaven in the face of the humble and unrecorded graves which mark the tho dreary wa way y across those plains and mountains which they had llad just passed over they dare not brand us hypocrites and in this city they told us we were indu industrious s energetic intelligent and bontio ost oat and a credit to tle tie nation that calla calls us citizens arc are these the characteristics acte and attribute attributes fi of fools or idiots did they speak sincerely or insincerely when they uttered these sentiments know gentlemen of the press and all ali whom irmay ugh a repugnance to this doctrine may be expressed by one ina thousand of the people whom you call mormons cormons Mor mons he Is not one nor recognized as such by that religious community of which he may bo be galled called a member if one revelation la Is untrue all are untrue if one was revealed rove aled by god all have their origin in the tho same divine source but where does doea that conjugal annc annec 1 tion exist in Which it ia is sald said doi dol polygamy must bo be wanting why is misery a consequent of polygamy and what finer feelings and are blunted by it we are talked tallied to and ol 01 aa as a people who never had any acquaintance with the practical workings of monogamy does it ever occur to those who thus write and reason that we were reared in monh 40 amic amle homes in this and other lands with pious fathers and mothers christian teachers teacher sanda and a free bible in our hands which we were ight to tio read that we know the happiness which exists in such places is IF like the tiny rivulet that glides on to i its is own on wert went rippling music hidden I 1 by the tin irv iry nine nini banks bunks of the broad rapid an ani and 1 I turbulent river of corruption I 1 and misery that rushes along beside it 1 arc are the strong feelings and halit ti which rf rit cit i nonn nenn is so loftt 3 marle maile in leakim ioakim of polygamy tho thoi i wa which ich form the groundwork of prurient novels novel and love tales which fanned into ungovernable passin passion in the breasts of the young youns rf nf both hoth both sexes imad lead them to illicit inter owe ome or though tle tie wedlock iok in the one ta t eaic caie a bringing tion in the bolher subsequent u years yearb of miers miery misery what holy reeling feeling is blunted la Is it that of wife the only basis of tru HK low latigu li ahm election tty in any one wife hul hui uil tild or friend is respect all alli tt dani danl awni eem take these away and passion which ever brings unhappiness and misery may direct the ungoverned feelings to an object the most unworthy degrading the one who loves to the level of the object of that passion what the world have yet to learn and what chatita its accepted teachers whether self ap pointed or otherwise seem incapable of teaching is that passion must be governed and feeling controlled or true and lasting happiness the very aim and object of life can never be attained tail tali led As well might it be said that the affection of the parent must bo be confined to one child and that the affection of a united family could not reciprocate that of the parent or jealousy would creep in bitterness of ot thong thought be engendered and the finer feelings and ties be blunted as that one man cannot entertain for and extend affection to more than one woman or that his affection could not be reciprocated by more than one without the same results being called into existence the presumed misery cons consequent equen t upon polygamy is advanced as one of the strongest arguments against it upon what is it based some person met and conversed with some isome other person who did not enjoy tint amount of hap bap happiness in polygamy which they desired to realize who does in any condition of life how many wives curse the hour they ever entered the bonds of wedlock there is no argument in it nor can an argument be logically based upon it it is a statement and can be met by a counter statement which the experience of this united people can endorse they having had bad a practical acquaintance with and an experience in the workings of both forms of marriage take fifty a in ic f families ami lie ile s indiscriminately from this community and the same number in the same manner from any other community in the world and aud ud there will be found more conjugal unhappiness in tho latter than exists in the former the moral purity 2 and exalting ln in fluen ces cea of the systems from which we have thoughtfully and conscientiously fevered severed ourselves are known to us we have seen felt and understand them and as parenty parents who love our children as hus hua husbands bands and wives who love respect and esteem each other as a people who desire to serve god and keep his commandments we may eay let us have that purity which will exalt and ennoble us usand and which is doing BO so while we firmly decidedly and unalterably reject that so called purity which has filled the world wi with corruption misery and degradation S |
